Ethan Plant

I do not need a fork of Linux.

The Arch User Repository has a malware problem.

Akeem Jenkins recently wrote an interesting piece arguing for agent-first command-line tools: CLIs designed around the assumption that their main caller is a language model rather than a person.

Update -- July 28, 2026 Since this article was published, Stop the Datacentre(s) has added a "How This Works" page to their site explaining that it is a "network of municipal campaigns using shared infrastructure" and identifies the use of machine learnin…

A few weeks ago I discovered a project named Bridger.

The C-22 report looks familiar.

My website has appears to have developed what I can only describe as a government.

Webmention has one job.

Elsewhere is a local POSSE CLI for static-site writers.

Elsewhere is on crates.io now.

Terence Eden recently wrote a lovely little post called "This blog is written in en-GB".

It would be convenient if Bill C-36 were obviously bad.

There is a very funny dispute on Wikipedia about the Coat of Arms of Canada.

My website has reached a new and terrible milestone.

A website should not need a town square.

The Entertainment Software Association has found the real threat to the video game industry.

This is a long piece, so the short version is: Bill C-34 gets part of the problem right.

There are certain sentences that sound harmless until you happen to live in Vancouver in June 2026.

I was scrolling through Instagram, because unfortunately I am not immune to doomscrolling, when I came across a reel advertising bridger.social.

My immediate reaction to Apple WWDC is that Apple may be the only major tech company that has not fully lost its mind around AI.

Canada should know better.

I was trying to add my website to the Internet Phone Book, as one does, when I encountered the following option in the registration form: (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US and Canada) Absolutely the fuck not.

Petite note en français, avec une mise en garde nécessaire : mon français est, franchement, assez faible.

I was reminded today, after seeing a Reddit thread about how often total solar eclipses actually happen, of the 2024 eclipse I watched from Mount Royal in Montréal.

One of the stranger pleasures of having a personal website is seeing how it moves around the web without you.

"A mess of the government's own making."

I submitted a brief to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security regarding Bill C-22, An Act respecting lawful access.

The boos made sense.

The personal computer had a simple idea around it.

Canada cannot build digital sovereignty by making Canadian infrastructure less trustworthy.

RustyBoy is a Game Boy emulator written in Rust.

Molecule is a small Unix-like kernel experiment written in Rust.

One day a piece of software you rely on will refuse to open.

Software should not require permission to run.